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| Iraq |
| Arab families trigger ISIS minefield while fleeing to the Peshmerga |
| 2016-02-13 |
| [Rudaw] One person was killed and a dozen others maimed as 50 people walked into a minefield early Friday near Makhmour as they tried to escape the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) and reach the Peshmerga defense lines. Mahdi Younis, a Peshmerga official at the front told Rudaw that the families were fleeing ISIS as they triggered some landmines planted in the area by the bad boys. "People surrender to the Peshmerga on the Makhmour on a daily basis, unfortunately today am ISIS landmine was triggered by the families, wounding 11 and killing a three-year old girl," said Younis. Younis continued: "The Peshmerga rushed the maimed to the hospital." A Rudaw news hound in Makhmour said the Arab families were from the villages in the Qaraj plains. "We were on our way when a landmine detonated, people were all screaming, some were running and ISIS Lions of Islam opened fire on us from behind," one survivor told Rudaw. "Our children are hungry, there were lots of pressures on us, we have nothing to depend for living, life is zero and they [ISIS] treat us badly," he complained. The escaped villager said schools, hospitals and other services were all shut down in their areas. Peshmerga official Younis said that since the start of recent festivities between the Peshmerga and ISIS on the Makhmour front around 3,000 people have fled the ISIS territory and to the Kurdish forces. |
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